AMU is a centre of academic excellence where research and teaching are mutually sustaining. AMU's mission is to advance knowledge through quality research and teaching in partnership with business and public services. AMU is the major academic institution in Poznań and one of the top Polish universities. Its reputation has been founded on tradition, achievements of the academic staff, and attractive interdisciplinary curricula offered to students. AMU is one of ten research universities in Poland, strongly oriented to the development of scientific research and their internationalization. AMU aspires to contribute to economic growth, social development and environmental sustainability in Central Europe. Among its more than one hundred honorary doctors there are Nobel Prize winners M. Curie-Sklodowska, W. Szymborska, J. Solana and Pope John Paul II. AMU is a member of the consortium of European universities EPICUR and has entered about 400 partnership agreements with academic institutions all over the world. AMU align its principles with those of the Great Charter of European Universities. Today almost 35 000 students (of all levels: first- and second- level degree programmes, postgraduates and PhD students) can choose among 366 fields of study, 23 doctoral programmes, 40 postgraduate study programmes (including the MBA programme, and those financed by the ESF) as well as studies in English and German, offered by 21 faculties on campuses in Poznań, Gniezno, Kalisz, Piła and Słubice. AMU diploma is an increasingly sought-after asset on the labor market. The students including those who are studying here within Erasmus+ programme, come from 100 different countries. The largest groups are from Ukraine, Spain and Turkey. Their presence gives a truly international atmosphere. The University is constantly working on its offer for foreigners, improving procedures and enlarging each year possibilities of studies in English. That is why it hosts guest speakers, renowned politicians, businessmen, culture and art individuals from Poland and abroad. It is also involved into international mobility. We are a part of EPICUR Alliance (European Partnership for an Innovative Campus Unifying Regions) together with 7 European universities from Austria, Germany, Greece and France, what opens new perspective to our students and researchers. We are constantly focusing on gaining more direct cooperation agreements with partner institutions from all over the world. Each year we are welcoming new foreign students as well as sending our students abroad to spend a semester, or a year.